WSJ Reporter Gershkovich & Paul Whelan released by Russia in prisoner swap

[CLT Heel]

It’s a bad deal the worstest even, something so bad only Joe Biden could negotiate for it. Hugely bad deal.

It’s not as bad as you think. Not widely reported is that the deal also includes the United States getting a 2025 kidnapped journalist to be named later.

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

 

[nycfan]

Off the golf course and exactly as awful as always. Not even a kind word for the actual hostages …

 

[aGDevil2k]

JD Vance said they are being released because of Trump

Delusion.

 

[UNCRx85]

How long until MAGA chants "Send them back!" at trump rallies?

 

[UNCRx85]

JD Vance said they are being released because of Trump

Delusion.

 

[lawtig02]

JD Vance said they are being released because of Trump

Delusion.

So they weren’t released during Trump’s time in office. Nor were they released anytime in the last couple of years when Trump has been favored to win the election. Only when Trump starts self-immolating are they released — because the Russians now fear a new Trump administration?

Any Pubs here want to defend that logic?

 

[Wheels81]

Trump is definitely the bottom in that relationship.

But he’s kind of a bossy bottom.

 

[Zoo_View]

But he’s kind of a bossy bottom.

Not when Vlad is in the room.

 

[korgguy1971]

Holy crap, they also released Vladimir Kara-Murza?? That's astonishing, considering how anti-Putin he is. He would occasionally appear on Nicolle Wallace's show (and many others on different networks), which I sometimes put on in the afternoon.

 

[UNCatTech]

Trump is definitely the bottom in that relationship.

And now we have seen Biden's response.

 

[nycfan]

 

[korgguy1971]

And to think that they are the most viewed and the number one cable news network (ratings-wise) in America, far and away. :-|

 

[nycfan]

https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/01/politics/fact-check-trump-falsely-claims-he-gave-up-nothing-american-prisoner-exchanges/index.html

“… Among other things, Trump wrote: “Are we releasing murderers, killers, or thugs? Just curious because we never make good deals, at anything, but especially hostage swaps. Our ‘negotiators’ are always an embarrassment to us! I got back many hostages, and gave the opposing Country NOTHING – and never any cash. To do so is bad precedent for the future. That’s the way it should be, or this situation will get worse and worse.”

[The article lists 4 examples of a prisoner exchange by the Trump Admin]

 

[05C40]

1968 - President L. B. Johnson: "If I've lost Cronkite, I've lost Middle America."
2024 - Convicted Felon D. J. Trump: "If I've lost Putin, I've lost right-wing America."

 

[1moretimeagain]

Biden was asked (paraphrasing) “We know these exchanges involve tough decisions, what was the most difficult decision to make?”

 

[1moretimeagain]

 

[Rock]

 

[CallMeTyler]

And to think that they are the most viewed and the number one cable news network (ratings-wise) in America, far and away. :-|

It's just sad man. People that watch Fox just exist in a bubble of anger all day, every day.